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You are a personality researcher at a major research university. You measure 500 individual’s conscientiousness at age 25. Twenty years later you measure the same 500 individual’s conscientiousness. Which of the following scales/questionnaires are you MOST likely to use to make your measurement?

According to class discussion, general patterns of public support for military force include all of the following EXCEPT:

Rebecca turned down a high paying job in an office with lots of people in favor of taking a lower paying job that allows her to work by herself at home. Whenever she is invited out to parties or to group dinners she almost always says no, preferring to stay in and read a book at home. Based upon the description above, what Big 5 personality dimension would Rebecca likely score LOW in:

Which of the following would be an example of normative social influence?

Beta-blockers are a class of drugs commonly used to treat a variety of heart issues (among other conditions). These drugs block activation of the sympathetic nervous system. Which theory of emotion would predict that individuals taking beta-blockers would be INCAPABLE of having the subjective experience of emotions?

Hazel is a psychologist who just conducted a Milgram-style obedience study. In her version, the experimenter identified herself as an undergraduate doing her senior thesis. The teacher and learner were seated in the same room facing each other. The experimenter stood watching just over the teacher’s shoulder. The teacher had to physically place the learner’s hand on a shock plate to punish them when they did not follow instructions. A second teacher (a confederate) was present and refused to obey the experimenter when the voltage reached halfway to the maximum. All of the following changes to the scenario above would tend to increase the probability of participants showing obedience EXCEPT:

Dan is waiting for the elevator in the Psychology Building. When the door opens, he sees two other individuals already in the elevator. Weirdly, both of the other individuals are facing the opposite direction as would be normal (i.e., they’re both facing the back of the elevator rather than the front where the door opens). Dan isn’t quite sure what to do, but he decides that he too should face the back of the elevator. Which of the following changes to the scenario above would tend to DECREASE the probability that Dan would conform and face the back of the elevator?

What was not presented as a possible influence on personality?

Although congenitally blind individuals have never seen another human being’s facial expressions, they nonetheless tend make the same basic set of facial expressions when they are angry, happy, sad, and disgusted as sighted individuals. This is often taken as evidence in favor of the ________________.

Suppose a 3×5 matrix A has rank r = 3. Then the equation Ax = b always has [a]